Biological activity has shaped the surface of the earth in numerous ways, but life’s most
pervasive and persistent global impact has been the secular oxidation of the surface
environment. Through primary production – the ...

Recruitment variability in benthic invertebrate populations results from variability in planktonic
larval supply and from processes occurring during and after larval settlement onto the seafloor.
The focus of this thesis ...

One challenge in phytoplankton ecology is to measure species-specific physiological responses to
changes in environmental conditions. Of particular importance in this regard are harmful algal bloom
(RAB) species such as ...

This thesis presents an application of the Grant-Madsen-Glenn bottom boundary
layer model (Grant and Madsen, 1979; Glenn and Grant, 1987) to predictions of
sediment transport on the continental shelf. The analysis is a ...

This thesis studies the role of cross-isopycnal mixing in general circulation dynamics,
from both the theoretical and observational points of view.
The first two chapters discuss some theoretical aspects of cross-isopycnal ...

This thesis consists of two loosely related problems, both of which analyze some
consequences of the failure of Sverdrup relation. In the first part, Chapters 2 and 3,
the Sverdrup relation is invalidated because substantial ...

The hypothesis that planktonic larvae of benthic invertebrates sink
through the water like passive particles in turbulent flows near the
seabed was tested in the field using several groups of geometrically
different ...

The temporal and spatial variability of low frequency
moored temperature and velocity observations, obtained as
part of the Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE), are
analyzed to study the kinematics and energetics of ...

Salt pond is a meromictic system with an outlet to the sea allowing denser seawater to
occupy the monimolimnion while the mixolimnion has relatively low salinity and is the site of
greater mixing and microbial activity. ...

Seismic refraction experiments have been used extensively in the past
thirty five years in investigations of the structure of the oceanic crust. The
longer range of the refraction or wide angle reflection technique, on ...